Re: system-config-packages - everything group

From: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin redhat com>

To: fedora-config-list redhat com

Subject: Re: system-config-packages - everything group

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:18:05 -0400

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:34:41PM -0500, Travis Abbott wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade a whole bunch of RH9 boxes to FC2. It seems anaconda
> won't install any new packages, it only updates existing packages it has
> newer versions of. I'm trying to get these RH9 boxes to be as close to an
> "everything" install of FC2 as possible.
[snip]
> What I'm wondering is whether or not there is an easy way to use
> system-config-packages to update the system with "everything" on the
> installation media, or is there another tool I should look into?
If you can perform the main part of the upgrade using anaconda, you can
then use 'up2date --show-package-dialog' to install anything that was
newly-added, and 'up2date --show-orphans' to find things which were
removed.
HTH,
Nalin